Dozens of foreigners from six different continents are being held at Guantanamo Bay, DHS officials have confirmed.

Venezuelan migrants flown from Guantanamo Bay via Honduras, walk after arriving on a deportation flight at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, La Guaira State, Venezuela, Feb. 20, 2025.

In the 1990s, the U.S. held thousands of Cubans and Haitians at Guantánamo Bay after being intercepted at sea on their way to the U.S. In recent years, fewer than 100 people have been held there ...

As President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act Wednesday, he announced that he is directing the opening of a detention center inside of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to hold tens of thousands of ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Tuesday, his first trip to the naval installation since being confirmed to his post in January. Hegseth, who served as a U.S ...

Guantanamo Bay, located in southeastern Cuba, is approximately 545 miles south of Florida, making it the closest U.S. naval base on a foreign island to the mainland United States.

This is a view of part of Camp Justice, the court complex on the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay. It is miles from the military prison, which began detention operations in a separate site called ...

In 2015, it was reported that running the Guantanamo Bay camp cost the U.S. Department of Defense roughly $445 million. In a 2016 Homeland Security hearing, ...

It was 22 years ago this week that the U.S. opened a military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold suspected terrorists after the 9/11 attacks. That prison remains open today. It still holds ...

As the U.S. reflects on 20 years since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the notorious Guantanamo Bay detention facility – which houses suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other ...

The men had been held by the U.S. since 2003 and imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay since 2006, for their ties to al Qaeda and an Indonesian extremist group called Jemaah Islamiyah.

The Homeland Security Department did not answer PolitiFact’s query about how many migrants were at Guantánamo Bay before Trump’s order. But in September 2024, The New York Times reported the ...